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Post number 3208

sonofsamiam — Mon, 11 Sep 2000 07:27:08 -0800

The first web-banner I ever liked.

By: EngineBeak

EngineBeak — Mon, 11 Sep 2000 07:57:41 -0800

Haw haw, dumbass, it changes on every reload.

By: webmutant

webmutant — Mon, 11 Sep 2000 09:14:50 -0800

I was going to point that out myself, but I was going to be, you know -- civil?

By: mathowie

mathowie — Mon, 11 Sep 2000 10:00:55 -0800

Actually, I get the same banner, every time, and I noticed it's different at home and at work. Could it be my doubleclick cookie ID pegging me at each location for a certain demographic?

By: pnevares

pnevares — Mon, 11 Sep 2000 10:03:29 -0800

I'm doing my part in fooling DoubleClick... At home I'm a 14 year old German proctologist who likes horseback riding. At work I'm a 87 year old Puerto Rican grandmother with 54 grandkids who likes S&M. Anyone else having fun with them? =)

By: Succa

Succa — Mon, 11 Sep 2000 10:06:22 -0800

I'm having fun with DoubleClick by staying as far away as humanly possible from them, or anything they may be associated with. Does that count?

By: capt.crackpipe

capt.crackpipe — Mon, 11 Sep 2000 10:47:17 -0800

if you're seeing the evolution add banner, that's cribbed from an italian magazine from a few years ago. infringement! sue the bastards!

By: tiaka

tiaka — Mon, 11 Sep 2000 10:50:59 -0800

Is it that HP java banner? url is http://ln.doubleclick.net/adi/wn.ln/f;h=f;sz=468x60;tile=1;pos=1;!category=adult;ord=2306022021?

By: aaron

aaron — Mon, 11 Sep 2000 11:46:24 -0800

What's the best way to keep DoubleClick out of my hair? On a Mac?

By: pnevares

pnevares — Mon, 11 Sep 2000 11:56:30 -0800

the HP java banner can be found here: http://www.whitesands.org/portfolio/banners/demos/pong.html (got the link from jason kottke's site)

By: MrMoonPie

MrMoonPie — Mon, 11 Sep 2000 12:28:45 -0800

Video game trivia--contrary to what's stated at the whitesands site, Pong was not the first video game. From what I can find, Spacewar was the first video game, while Magnavox's Odyssey was the first home video game (my family had one, waaay back in the early 70s). In fact, Magnavox successfully sued Pong for copyright infringement. Pong was, however, the first coin-op game.

By: jkottke

jkottke — Mon, 11 Sep 2000 13:09:01 -0800

>What's the best way to keep DoubleClick out >of my hair? On a Mac? DoubleClick allows you to opt out of their service. If I recall correctly, there are other ways of blocking their cookies and banners as well, but most of that involves tinkering with the network stuff on your computer or your ISP's server.

By: sonofsamiam

sonofsamiam — Mon, 11 Sep 2000 13:53:39 -0800

sorry, people. I checked it several times (but don't have any doubleclick cookies) and it was the same banner. (the HP java one.) Appollyloggies.

By: kurumi

kurumi — Mon, 11 Sep 2000 14:22:02 -0800

>What's the best way to keep DoubleClick out >of my hair? On a Mac? iCab (http://www.icab.de/). This compact browser lets you stuff cookie requests, and filter ads based on server, path, and filename of either the image (img src =...) or what it links to (a href =....) If you see an ad you don't like, control-click and select Image|Filter from the context menu, where iCab helpfully fills in the criteria you need to block the ad. iCab's a free preview, but the fixed up version will be about $30 US. It has pushed aside Netscape for almost all browsing, and made WebFree redundant as well.

By: Lirp

Lirp — Mon, 11 Sep 2000 17:48:01 -0800

So tell me, I click on the above and get a broken image. Why is that?

By: aaron

aaron — Mon, 11 Sep 2000 21:13:52 -0800

Thanks Jason and kurumi!

By: viama

viama — Tue, 12 Sep 2000 00:42:36 -0800

The best way is to fool your system into thinking that the ad servers are local to your machine, and send the requests into oblivion. Check out this page, where there are instructions for doing this with both PC and Mac. I've implemented the modified hosts file on both my machines, and I now see a fraction of ads online. Simple and very effective.